According to The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State University is hiring the chief of the Virginia Commonwealth University health system to lead its Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Sheldon Retchin will start at Ohio State on March 2 as executive vice president of health sciences and CEO of the Wexner Medical Center. He is replacing Dr. Steven Gabbe, […]
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center is using fecal transplants to treat a serious intestinal infection. Dr. Razvan Arsenescu, medical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic at OSU, has been using a donor’s stool sample to relieve the effects caused by the infection. The intestinal infection, called C. diff, causes severe diarrhea and fatigue in […]
